What Is Extraverted Thinking?
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What Is Extraverted Thinking?

Have you ever come across the word “Te” on a type website (like this one) and gotten confused or irritated? Perhaps you’ve groaned and thought to yourself, “What does Te even mean?” Many type experts make use of jargon or shortcuts to describe the more intricate aspects of type. But today we’ll explain Extraverted Thinking…

Extroverted Cognitive Functions Versus Introverted Cognitive Functions
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Extroverted Cognitive Functions Versus Introverted Cognitive Functions

Let’s get real nerdy. Cognitive function level nerdy. When first describing type, Carl Jung coined the terms Objective and Subjective to distinguish between extroversion and introversion. “Introverted and extroverted types. When we consider the course of human life, we see how the fate of one individual is determined more by the objects of his interest,…

The Cognitive Functions – What Are They?
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The Cognitive Functions – What Are They?

When it comes to your Myers-Briggs® personality type, we tend to explain the terms in a very clinical, cold sense. Today I wanted to use more imagery to describe the cognitive functions. I wanted to describe them at their best, in a way that (hopefully) will create a picture in people’s minds of what they…

The Cognitive Functions Expressed in Famous Quotes
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The Cognitive Functions Expressed in Famous Quotes

There is a lot of information out there about the cognitive functions, but sometimes the best way to understand them is to see them in action. I see a lot of sensors who think they are intuitives until they’re around an intuitive, or Fi users who think they’re Fe users, Te users who think they…

How You Use Extraverted Thinking – Based On Its Location in Your Function Stack
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How You Use Extraverted Thinking – Based On Its Location in Your Function Stack

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.” – Carl Sagan, an ENTJ Extraverted Thinking (Te) is the function that has been used by some of the most thought-provoking inventors, scientists, politicians, and businessmen…